Talos: A Roswell Connection? - UFO Conjectures

Ancient history and aliens get connected in many ways. Rich Reynolds is impressed by a chapter on the giant Talos in a new Princeton University Press book by Adrienne Mayor. Mayor's mention of the Talos U.S. missile system set Rich to wondering whether any tests of that missile might have gone awry during the Roswell time frame, providing the ambiguous wreckage and birthing a modern myth. In Science and Science Fiction: Ancient Dreams of Technology Rich further praises this "fabulous book" as showing that more ancients than just Greeks "envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements"--on their own, without the aid of astral mentors. Well, Jason Colavito can't let this book go, because Talos ran afoul of a guy named Jason and his shipmates, the Argonauts, and Colavito wrote a whole book on them and how their story has mutated through the ages. In Adrienne Mayor Says Talos Was an Ancient Fantasy Robot, But I'm Not So Sure, Jason takes some scholarly potshots at Mayor's treatment of the Talos myth. We come full circle with Roswell Gets Giant Alien Statue. As Talos once fabulously strode the island of Crete, a 22-foot tall green "grey" now stands in the middle of the New Mexican burg. Only the Roswell version doesn't move, literally weighing a ton, and its purpose is to bring in, not fend off, visitors. Tim Binnall says the locals have yet to give the figure a name. Perhaps "Talos"? (WM)

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